Program
Morning sessions are from 8:30 - 11:30 AM (may end earlier) with a 20-min coffee break.
Evening sessions are from 4:30 - 7:30 PM with a 20-min coffee break.
Wednesday afternoon is free , with a public lecture by Andrea Ghez in the evening, preceded by Astro-Cafe given by Dimitrios Psaltis and Daryl Haggard both at the Wheeler Opera House.
Conference dinners are at 7:45 PM on Tuesday and Thursday at the Aspen Meadows.
Registration and the Opening Reception will be held at the Aspen Center for Physics
from 5:00 - 7:00 PM on Sunday evening, Feb 7.
A special poster advertisements session will take place on Wednesday with lunch (for $10),
immediately following the morning talk session.
All indicated talk times include questions.
Sunday
5:00-7:00pm Registration Reception
Monday
dynamics nuclear star cluster | ||
Morning | [Chair: Smadar Naoz] | |
8:30 | welcome | |
8:35 | Tal Alexander | Relativistic loss-cone dynamics: Implications for the Galactic Center [Slides] |
8:55 | Pau Amaro-Seoane | Sculpting the Galactic Centre |
9:15 | Xian Chen | Galactic Center Dynamics and Implications for a Glorious Past of Sagittarius A* [Slides] |
9:35 | Melvyn Davies | The Ecology of the Galactic Center [Slides] |
9:55 | Coffee break | |
10:15 | Hagai Perets | Evolution of nuclear stellar disks in the Galactic center and beyond |
10:35 | Ben Bar-Or | Stellar Dynamics around a Massive Black Hole |
10:45 | Danor Aharon | Formation and Evolution of galactic nuclei with In Situ Star Formation: TDEs, Nuclear |
10:55 | Rainer Schoedel | Stellar Structure and Dynamics at the Galactic Center |
11:15 | Lunch and poster viewing |
Binaries and Hyper-velocity stars | ||
Afternoon | [Chair: Hagai Perets] | |
4:30 | Smadar Naoz | Merging Binaries in the Galactic Center |
4:50 | Fabio Antonini | Dynamical solutions to Galactic center puzzles |
5:10 | Elena Maria Rossi | First constraints from Hypervelocity stars [Slides] |
5:30 | Reem Sari | How Empty is an Empty Loss Cone |
5:50 | Coffee break |
Stellar properties/population | ||
6:10 | Jessica Lu | Dynamics and IMF of the Milky Way\'s Young Nuclear Cluster |
6:30 | Youjun Lu | The origin of the GC S-stars, hyperveloci ty stars, GC pulsars, and hyperfast pulsars [Slides] |
6:50 | Matthew Hosek | The Dynamical Structure and Initial Mass Function of the Arches Cluster [Slides] |
7:00 | Maryam Habibi | Spectral study of S- stars in the Galactic center. |
7:15 | Tuan Do | Discovery of Low-Metallicity Stars at the Galactic Center |
7:35 | dinner (independently) | |
Tuesday
Compact objects and exotics | ||
Morning | [Chair: Tuan Do] | |
8:30 | Steinn Sigurdsson | Black hole kicks: implications for XRBs, BH binaries and high velocity stars |
8:50 | Geoffrey Bower | The Galactic Center Pulsars |
9:10 | Ali Taani | Monte Carlo simulation of 3-D Hamiltonian systems with dynamical interaction |
9:30 | Coffee break | |
9:50 | Wlodzimierz Kluzniak | The 17 minute QPO from oscillations of the accretion torus [Slides] |
10:10 | Bence Kocsis | Liquid crystals of stars and black holes at the centers of galaxies [Slides] |
10:30 | Lunch and poster viewing |
G2 and Friends | ||
Afternoon | [Chair: Daryl Haggard] | |
4:30 | Stefan Gillessen | An Update: The resolved tidal disruption of G2 and its streamer |
4:50 | Breann Sitarski | Infrared Excess Sources at the Galactic Center |
5:10 | Monica Valencia-Schneider | SgrA* and its immediate vicinity |
5:30 | Ann-Marie Madigan | Using gas clouds to probe inflow into SgrA* [Slides] |
5:50 | Coffee break | |
6:10 | Ruth Murray-Clay | |
6:30 | Brian Morsony | G2 and Sgr A*: A Cosmic Fizzle At The Galactic Center [Slides] |
6:50 | Diego Calderon Espinoza | Clump formation through colliding stellar winds in the Galactic Centre [Slides] |
7:00 | Mark Walker | Cosmic snow clouds [Slides] |
7:15 | discussion | |
7:45 | group dinner |
Wednesday
BH properties, GR and low energy emission | ||
Morning | [Chair: Stefan Gillessen] | |
8:30 | Sheperd Doeleman | Physics at the Black Hole Boundary |
8:50 | Jonathan Weintroub | The technical road map of the Event Horizon Telescope |
9:05 | Eric Keto | A radio- frequency survey of gas in the Central Molecular Zone |
9:25 | Coffee break | |
9:45 | Mark Morris and Eric Becklin | Sgr A* variability |
10:00 | Avery Broderick | Modelling the Accretion Flow of Sgr A* on Horizon Scales |
10:20 | Dimitrios Psaltis | Testing the General Relativistic No-Hair Theorem with the Event Horizon Telescope |
10:40 | Lia Medeiros | GRMHD simulations of visibility amplitude and phase vasiability of Str A* |
10:50 | Sean Ressler | Observational Consequences of Including Electron Thermodyamics in GRMHD [Slides] |
11:00-11:30 | Poster advertisements |
No afternoon sessions
5:30pm public lecture
Thursday
GR | ||
Morning | [Chair: Avery Broderick] | |
8:30 | LIGO | press conference (see also youtube link) |
9:30 | Ilya Mandel | LIGO discussion |
10:00 | Coffee break | |
10:20 | Andrea Ghez | Orbits and GR |
10:40 | Qingjuan Yu | Constraining the spin of the massive black hole at the Galactic center |
11:00 | Clifford Will | Incorporatin g post- Newtonian effects in N-body dynamics |
11:20 | Fupeng Zhang | On testing the Kerr metric in the GC via star orbits: the effects of stellar perturbations [Slides] |
11:40 | Lunch and poster viewing |
TDE | ||
Afternoon | [Chair: Mark Morris] | |
4:30 | Stefan Gillessen | GRAVITY |
4:45 | Ilya Mandel | Double tidal disruptions in galactic nuclei [Slides] |
5:05 | Kirill Lezhnin | Suppression of stellar tidal disruption rates by anisotropic al initial conditions |
5:15 | Gongjie Li | Implications of the eccentric Kozai-Lidov mechanism for stars surrounding supermassive black hole binary [Slides] |
5:35 | James Guillochon | Unbound Debris Streams and Remnants Resulting from the Tidal Disruption [Slides] |
5:55 | Alessandro Trani | Looking for planets and protoplanets in the Galactic center |
6:10 | Coffee break |
Accretion and high energy emission | ||
6:30 | Daryl Haggard | Interpreting Sgr A*'s Most Luminous X-ray Flares [Slides] |
6:50 | Simon Portegies Zwart | The accretion rate of the galactic center black hole |
7:10 | Nora Luetzgendorf | Stellar winds near massive black holes: The case of the S-stars |
7:25 | discussion | |
7:45 | Banquet | |
Friday
Accretion and high energy emission -cont | ||
Morning | [Chair: Jessica Lu] | |
8:30 | Mark Morris | Accretion onto Sgr A* |
8:50 | Manichandra Morampudi | Modeling Black Hole Accretion Flows using Extended Magnetohy drodynamic s |
9:00 | Joseph Neilsen | A Statistical Approach to the Physics of Flares from Sgr A* |
9:20 | Coffee break |
Star formation | ||
9:40 | William Lucas | Fuelling the Galactic Centre via infall from the Central Molecular Zone [Slides] |
9:55 | Alessandro A. Trani | Formation and dynamics of circumnuclear rings in the Galactic center |
10:05 | Joss Bland-Hawthorn | The Seyfert history of our Galaxy |
10:25 | Betsy Mills | New results from ALMA |
10:35 | closing remarks | |